CULPEPER — The Culpeper Town Council voted 5-4 Tuesday night remove the name of a Confederate artillery officer as the label for its main reservoir, Lake Pelham.
Governor s budget adoption clears way for American Battlefield Trust to give 1,700 acres in Culpeper County to Virginia. The commonwealth s turn-key state park is due to open on July 1,
Visitors still come to Civil War battlefields to ask why our great-great-grandfathers killed one another there, and whether we can resolve the stubborn differences they left behind. But the battlefields are more than memorials. They are also green, open spaces – natural reserves surrounded by rapidly expanding suburbs.
Preservation Virginia, American Battlefield Trust, other groups say local residents and heritage tourists lose when officials don’t balance data-center development with historic open space.